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[White Police Officer Roy] Oliver and his partner, Tyler Gross, had been dispatched in response to neighbors’ complaints about a party with drunk high school students.
But there was no alcohol at the party, and the mood was cordial and even playful, with Oliver and Gross joking with the partygoers.
Things changed quickly, though, when shots rang out from a nearby parking lot — which were later determined to have been fired into the air by gang members.
Footage from the officers’ body cameras showed a chaotic scene, with teenagers filling the residential streets. Oliver went to his patrol car and retrieved his service rifle while Gross stopped one car leaving the party and attempted to stop a second car, a Chevrolet Impala driven by Jordan’s stepbrother, Vidal Allen.
Oliver said that as the Impala slowly backed away from Gross, he heard his partner reading the car’s license plate into the radio. Oliver said he took that as an indication that his partner had “keyed in on something.”
Gross walked to the passenger side door of the vehicle and broke the back window as he yelled, “Stop the f------ car.” Oliver then fired five rounds into the car in less than one second. ...
~WAPO
Read More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/former-police-officer-convicted-of-murder-for-shooting-unarmed-black-teen/2018/08/28/e5488fe6-aaf8-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?utm_term=.9a16df6f0f13
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